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The total number of births in Birmingham fell substantially from 17,404 in 2016.

Across England as a whole, the percentage of children born to foreign-born mums rose from 29.0 per cent in 2016 to 29.2 per cent in 2017.

Some 7.8 per cent of children were born to mums born in the “new” EU (up from 7.7 per cent); 3.0 per cent to mums born in the “old” EU (up from 2.9 per cent); 9.7 per cent to mums born in the Middle East and Asia (down from 9.8 per cent); and 5.0 per cent to mums born in Africa (down from 5.1 per cent).

Brent had the highest rate of children born to mums who were themselves born abroad.

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Some 75.7 per cent of all new births in the London borough in 2017 were to foreign-born mothers.

For London as a whole, that figure stood at 57.9 per cent.

It was above 50 per cent in a number of other places in England including Slough (62.8 per cent), Luton (59.6 per cent), Oxford (53.2 per cent), Leicester (52.6 per cent) and Cambridge (52.5 per cent).

It was lowest in South Staffordshire, where only 3.7 per cent of all births were to a mother who was herself born outside the UK.